“ADTRAN’s advanced G.fast innovation makes it the clear choice for our
G.fast rollout, helping us rapidly serve customers across Israel with
new, transformative broadband services,” said Bezeq CTIO, Yaki Zano.
“ADTRAN’s collaborative involvement in our strategic development has
given us a robust and flexible technology roadmap for the future of our
broadband access network, ready to confront new opportunities.”

The announcement is validation of ADTRAN’s global G.fast technology
leadership and follows a series of intensive lab and field trials with
the operator during 2016. Allied to the success of these trials was
ADTRAN’s partnership approach to addressing Bezeq’s unique Gigabit
broadband goals within a short timeframe.

“Bezeq is assuring a bright, sustainable future for ultrafast and
Gigabit broadband services in Israel, applying G.fast in a wide range of
varied applications so that the maximum number of subscribers across the
country are able to benefit without waiting for FTTP to arrive,” said
Ronan Kelly, CTO for EMEA and APAC at ADTRAN. “ADTRAN G.fast solutions
are built for superior versatility, robustness and performance, with
software-defined networking (SDN) principles that make Bezeq’s network
more flexible, open and ready to exploit dynamically.”

Bezeq is leveraging ADTRAN’s G.fast solutions in a variety of locations
and deployment scenarios including FTTB, FTTCab and both aerial and
subterranean FTTdp. Each of the DPUs involved in Bezeq’s deployment
utilizes ADTRAN’s renowned sealed micro DSLAM enclosures and is physical
layer agnostic to ensure rapid service provisioning and activation, even
within multi-vendor FTTx infrastructures. In addition, ADTRAN DPUs are
chipset agnostic, allowing them to remain at the forefront of G.fast
innovation, independent of the pace of development of specific chipset
vendors.

ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data, video
and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures.
ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private
enterprises, government organizations, and millions of individual users
worldwide. For more information, please visit www.adtran.com.

About Bezeq

Bezeq is Israel’s leading telecommunications service provider.
Established in 1984, the Company has led Israel into the new era of
communications, based on the most advanced technologies and services.
Bezeq and its subsidiaries offer the full range of communications
services including domestic, international and cellular phone services;
broadband Internet and other data communications; satellite-based
multi-channel TV; and corporate networks. For more information, please
visit http://www.bezeq.co.il/.